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It’s very funny to follow the official and orchestrated globalist media propaganda, not only funny because of the content they display but especially for the reactions to the politically orchestrated media campaigns.

You may have heard my criticize either the stimulus, Ron Paul or our current political decisions involving printing more money and selling or sovereignty to the foreign to pay for our trade deficit… that already benefits the foreign.

Now you may also have heard me state on diverse occasions that I find our current political situation very funny, and you may also have wondered why I allow myself to laugh at such things.
After all, millions of Americans losing their jobs and their homes to pay for foreign banks, foreign lobbies and foreign wars isn’t particularly sophisticated, courteous or refined.

Furthermore, the fact that these same millions of Americans seem to ask for more of the same policies that got them where they are today doesn’t seem very amusing either… at first.

About the FED and why the middle class is shooting itself in the foot

You see, I am a big advocate of personal responsibility and live by the guideline of what you seed you must harvest. Understand now why it annoys me subtly when some Americans decide not only to sell or sovereignty to the foreign, but then decide as a collectivized lobby to blame other Americans. Note that scapegoats are never foreign, as that would be intolerant.

That’s also a reason why I dislike the FED system, collectivist economic systems and socialism altogether, other than because they ruin our economic power and political freedom of course.

Yet these recent months it has been very interesting to notice the assemblies of middle class representatives, amongst various lobbies and politically engaged organizations, call for an “end to the FED”. Whether by FED they mean the “FED system” to which I refer or the actually Federal Reserve Bank I do not know.

But what I do know is that these representatives are not only biting the hand that feeds them, they are also shooting themselves in the foot (both feet actually).

What is funny in this situation, and what these Americans aren’t realizing, is that they are about to get a pretty good taste of what reality and individual responsibility look like, whether they like it or not. Probably not otherwise they wouldn’t have tried to escape these concepts in the first place.

Now all this masquerade of a dignified incompetence mixed with a tumultuous ignorance of even the basic economic concepts couldn’t have been possible without the undesired yet ostentatious participation of our eminent globalist leader : congressman Ron Paul.

Tip : Anytime the word “incompetence” is involved, think of Ron Paul.

It’s particularly ridiculous to see the same middle class that desperately whimpered and sobbed for a system designed to detach them from the reality of the financial market, now chanting openly for the abrogation of this system. Whether they realize or not (obviously not) is that they are about to taste the consequences of fifty years of reality denial.

I don’t know if Ron Paul really believes, as a good demagogue, that he can please as much people by repealing the FED system (if he’s even going to do so when elected) or if it’s just another electoral maneuver to rally the masses under a meaningless slogan.
Now I speak of Ron Paul because he is the only one that proposes to repeal this system, and I give him props for that (not too much though cause he’s still an idiot), but whether the middle class wants it or not (surprisingly they do), the FED system will have to end. Only the more Americans wait the harder they will get f*cked.

I really don’t know why those Americans, the ones that profited of the unrealistic and artificial monetary system not the hardworking patriots, would want it to end. They probably believe it will be the same as before, only they don’t have to pay taxes anymore (“yeeeeeah” stupid Californian-suburb accent).

Well unfortunately for them, and fortunately for the rest of the economy, that won’t be the case.

The same way you don’t step out of fifty years of collective irresponsibility, international socialism and ethnomasochism without consequences, you don’t step out of an artificial monetary system the same way either.

What they don’t realize is that the FED is helping these OWS hippies to the expense of the workers, the bosses, the companies and every other wealth creator. They think that someone they’re going to fuck over the “banks” with that ? Don’t worry that banks know how to capitalize their assets whether the dollar goes up or down.

What the end of the FED system really means, is that Americans will no longer be dependent of the FED and the government, but the global economic system. And when we see how little these Americans know about it, we have good reasons to be scared. Or amused.

The end of the FED system will mark the end of artificially pumped jobs : workers will start to be remunerated not by government imposed standard but by market standards. In other words, how useful they are to the overall economy. There will be no more teaching applied art history in a public school for 5K/month. It will also be likely that we see many restructuring plans within American companies.

The end of the FED system will also mark the end of the buying stuff you can’t afford. Notably our record high trade deficit. The government is always bragging about how the continuous stimulus was designed to help the banks and the different industries. That couldn’t be farther from the truth seeing how fast the money we print ends up out of our borders. The government is actually doing more harm than good to these industries by allowing the FED system to pursue.

The end of the FED system will also mark the end of the American business model. The laws of supply = demand will finally be respected, and our trade balance will at least have to be brought up to equilibrium.

Americans will have to stop relying on governmental intervention, stimulus, borrowed money, printed money, taxed money, artificial monetary systems and start producing their own goods. The globalist system will have to be progressively revoked since incompatible with economic reality.

Americans will have to adapt or die. And currently seeing how most hippies are only concerned with gay rights, peace, marijuana decriminalization, tolerance or ecology, it will be very funny trying to see them adapt to a new system, completely incompatible with the globalist propaganda they were encourage to plebiscite : economic reality.

What is really quite amusing is that for once, there will be no scrapegoats. The middle class will be hit hard (and repeatedly) with the very own rod they’ve been building for fifty years, fifty years of foreign dependance, de-localization of our production facilities, collective irresponsibility and ethnomasochism. There will be no excuses this time, economic reality doesn’t allow excuses anyway. No banks to blame, no government to accuse, no rich class to denounce.

I have but one recommendation for these Americans : nationalism.

Nationalism is the only constant in the factors that contributes to a successful nation. Some are more or less liberal, more or less governmental dependent, more or less socialist ; some have devalued currencies, some have healthcare, but the one constant is that they are nationalist.

Ron Paul is no better than Obama really, they’re both two politicians disconnected from the reality of the market, both of them promoting a dead ideology. The only props Ron Paul can have are for his minimal economic experience and the fact that he hasn’t been elected yet, so there’s not much to hold against him.

But don’t be fooled, there’s a reason why Ron Paul is so popular amongst our enemies : he is a demagogue, an internationalist and a delusional moralist. He always bases his judgement on how things should or should not be, never on what they are. He presents free trade and free market as the new magic pill, yet no successful country has really applied any part of his program.
The real successful countries, notably those who have a very high positive trade balance, are usually those who have strong governmental regulations to protect their market. And they are all nationalists, that’s what allows them to lend us their money. Which is actually our money they retrieved from their trade surplus.

American nationalists don’t believe in socialism and regulation, no more than they believe in free trade globalist delusions.

Many of the mass media operatives and anti-American propagandists are once more desperately trying to bring Ron Paul back into the public debate and the media eye, somehow by alleging him as the new liberal “revolution” and anti-establishment candidate.

Passing on the fact that he is as anti-establishment as Arthur Ruppin was anti-Zionist and that most of his proposals are just rehearsals of previous internationalist and globalist political beliefs coupled with even more ethnomasochism, there is at least some truth to the media propaganda for once : Ron Paul is liberal. Liberal as in real liberal, not left-wing progressive. I intentionally avoid the label classical liberal.

Now if the media for once got their facts right, they are of course completely wrong in their analysis of these facts.

Many representatives will say that Ron Paul popularized, or re-popularized, liberalism. Some will even go so far as to say that Ron Paul is popular because of his liberal views.

But I assure you, if Ron Paul manages to combine popularity in the globalist media and liberal views, there is no causality involved at all. I would go so far as to say that not only Ron Paul is not popular because of his liberal views, but rather popular despite his liberal inclinations.

Notice that those that support Ron Paul, that is to say every internationalist media to an extend, doesn’t do so because Ron Paul opposes public spending, governmental regulations and Keynesianism, but rather because he is seen as an objector to what they call “American imperialism”.

Ron Paul isn’t that much more economically liberal than Newt Gingrich or Ronald Reagan, but the reason he gets support from the anti-American media is simply because he has a very globalist and demagogic message : peace.

Furthermore, Ron Paul also has support for opposing the government, which is the new scapegoat of 2012. And by opposing I mean deluding himself and blaming everything on. But what he forgets is that liberalism isn’t particularly anti-government at all.

Liberalism doesn’t have to mean a limited government, rather an efficient government.

The media are dead wrong to believe that liberalism has rejuvenated. Liberalism means individual responsibility, and ethnomasochism is far from individual responsibility.
The more the American people strive for globalism, foreignism and anti-Americanism, the more they will be drawn to socialism regardless. If liberalism is a little more popular now than it used to be, it’s simply the result of the Bush/Obama fiasco.

But don’t delude yourself into believing that liberalism is back on the political agenda and that the United States citizens will suddenly change their political and ideological views. Nowadays Americans, if we can even call them Americans, are far too attached to the socialist values that gave birth to internationalism and ethnomasochism in the first place : collective irresponsibility, group think and sheep mentality.

As you all know unless you are either totally new or totally oblivious to American politics, we are governed by the anti-Americans.
Whether they take the aspect of the change obsessed pathological liar (Barack Obama), the idealist civil war veteran (Ron Paul), the openly indoctrinated foreign loving trying-to-sound-ecological lobbyists (Green Party), the frustrated virgin racial internationalists (American Nazi Party, Ku Klux Klan), the constructivist religious fanatics (Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich) or even the openly international anti-American socialists, they all have one point in common : they hate American sovereignty.

They are always trying to ally their respective community/views/lobbies to fit the international and anti-American doctrine, in an attempt to weaken even more our nation.

And there are also the less visible governors, those that pledge allegiance to Europe and global imperialism, those that secretly support directly from the congress every lobby possible that favors Europe and the Foreign over the American interests, while claiming it’s in the interest of our nation.

But those are the cases of a very reserved part of the American population. Not everyone can improvise themselves governors of our nation without a certain social status, acquired by feeding even more of American sovereignty to the global imperialism and their private, or not so private, interests.
The following categories are, as we shall see, much less reserved and almost anyone can join them, provided they rid themselves of any form or ability of reflection, or at least steer it down the path of least resistance. A wide and comfortable furrow marked and trailed by decades of disinformation and ethnomasochism.

Different species of anti-Americans

Far ahead of any other species by its numerous quantity and low intellectual quotient is the hippie.
The hippie is what modern (and anti-American) media may refer to as a “liberal”. Resulting from the social-globalist culture, therefore being deprived on any depth of thought, the hippie is against war because it’s bad, and supports peace because it’s good.

He enjoys anything that is foreign because seen as “exotic”, he appreciates foreign films because he believes bad acting and poor screenplay are better forms of self-expression than constructed and methodical cinematic approaches that actually require some effort.
He is against Americanization of society, the 1%, the banks, the rednecks, the government, Wall Street and Fox News because NBC told him that it would get him pussy (and also because he doesn’t want to be labelled as “racist”).
He is open to any form of governmental regulation, socialism, Marxism, communism and even fascism (without him knowing the proper meaning of the term of course) as long as it doesn’t involve anything patriotic, because patriotism is bad and it leads to far-right ideologies like Hitler, Mussolini, Staline and Obama.
Alternatively, he can also be pro-liberty, pro-choice and anti-regulation depending on which politician got to influence him first.

Assuming the crappy mindset of “another world is possible” and that Foreign interests are more important than American interests because he is against racial and national discrimination. He is for the love of all mankind, and will often employ terms such as “citizens of the world”, “the human race”, “global interest”… Despite visiting foreign countries for tourism (ethnomasochism once more), he usually can’t even speak half a language and has no clue how economical or social interactions work, and is comforted in his fictional ideals by the lies and propaganda of the feel-good anti-American media. Generally, with these people the discussion is impossible as they often lack the basics understandings, the intelligence, the maturity or even the perspective to comprehend or even try to acknowledge the issues.

The second class of anti-American population that we would examine is the indoctrinator. Having secured a minor degree in political science, or simply just befriending the HR director of a local broadcast channel, the indoctrinator is widely located within media diffusion center, whether newspapers, television or radio.
His beliefs are similar to those of the hippie, only he is characterized by even more confidence in his doctrine because of his empowerment. Valiantly defending free-speech, he would likely censor anything that doesn’t fit exactly the anti-American globalist propaganda.
According to him, the United States caused World Wars I, II and III, global warming, hunger, Katrina, Fukushima, 9/11, the bubonic pest, necrophilia and child prostitution. If you don’t agree with that, you are a racist, fascist, intolerant child abuser and holocaust denier. You have been warned.

Thirdly, there is the wannabe-dissident. A very intriguing class of ethnomasochists popularized by no other than Ron Paul himself, the wannabe-dissent believes that he is challenging the system, or the establishment, while proposing the exact same reforms as the ones already applied for the last fifty years.
For this particular class of anti-Americans, I will go so far as to quote Einstein “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” and inviting you to read my article They all want change, which is partially about the wannabe-dissidents.

And lastly, a very common case of anti-Americanism, the extremist fanatic. Whether about gay rights, feminism, white pride, Islam, Christianity or environment, there are always the extremist fanatics believing that there is a greater good above the national interest, and willing to sacrifice our sovereignty for it.

To all these cases also adds the one of those who act purely in their own interests : Whether they are adepts of the American Business Model (serial importers of foreign products or culture), parasite free-trader, infiltrated foreigners or traitors to their nation : they are the are in the group that’s directly benefiting from the growing ethnomasochism and anti-Americanism in our own country.
They know exactly how the anti-American machine works, and how to feed it properly to ensure their economic prosperity (and our economic decline). It’s not that hard if you read this article by the way.

Dichotomy of the anti-Americanism

This taxonomy list is far from being complete, but it gives a general idea of who the ethnomasochists are. It has another utility for the patriot, which is to definite two main constants in anti-Americanism.
Those who promote anti-Americanism, ethnomasochism or any other derived form that profits the foreign interest are either hypocritical or cynical.

The hypocrites will used terms as “global interests” and “citizens of the world” to convince Americans to adopt ethnomasochism. They are comparable to Jehovah witnesses, and strive to the destruction of American sovereignty.
The cynics on the other hand, acknowledge that they are working against our interest but also know that if they don’t do it, someone else will… and someone else will profit from it.

In some of my more recent posts, including Ron Paul the most hypocritical candidate, I strongly criticized Ron Paul for being yet another “miracle elixir” charlatan when addressing to the masses. I also criticized him for finding easy scapegoats to blame and for distorting the liberal/libertarian message.

At the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, precisely during the Paulson Plan, the bailout stimulus and at the peak of the socialist “Yes we can” campaigns, I correctly predicted that the public opinion would change from socialism to “liberalism”.

I will go deeper into this in subsequent articles, but the point is that the change of political direction of the masses was fairly predictable. But if on the surface the political opinions have changed, it’s really both sides of the same coin.
Socialism was simply running out of “miracle pills” for all society issues, so logically “liberalism” took over.
When I say “liberalism”, I am referring to Ron Paul’s propaganda, sort of based on liberalism… on the surface.

The problems in the United States are not so much political than ideological. Going from international socialism to international “ronpaulism” (sorry I really can’t associate liberalism or libertarianism to his policies) is not really what we need.
Sure it’s better to have an ethnomasochist government that’s not in debt and doesn’t fuck with our currency rather than an ethnomasochist government that does, but the core problems are still here.

The masses went from international socialism to international ronpaulism, thinking of it as a major change in our politics.
They went from :

cheering “Yes we can” to cheering “End the Fed”

seeing the “rich” as the cause of all our problems to seeing the “government” as the cause of all our problems (scapegoating)

defending foreign interests by bailouts and international aids to defending the foreign by non-interventionism

etc…

Notice that every scapegoat found for our problems has to be American (corporates, governments, the American rich class), otherwise you are labelled as racist.
Even the 9/11 attacks are blamed by the Americans on other Americans, since they are so scared of conflicting the foreign.

And if in appearance Ron Paul’s message seems liberal, it’s not.
I can’t stress this enough but liberalism means individual responsibility.
Is finding scapegoats a responsible attitude ? Blaming the government for everything (I never thought I would defend the government some day) ?

Ron Paul simply chose a few parts of liberalism that seemed appealing to the masses, such as the opposition to statism (that Ron Paul incorrectly distorts into the opposition of our government), debt reduction (which should be mandatory for every politician by now), low taxes and non-interventionism.
He added a good dose of ethnomasochism and foreign loving propaganda for it to be even more demagogic, and based his whole political program on those ideas.

But as stated in the title, those ideas aren’t everything. Neither the government nor the debt caused our huge trade deficit (granted that governmental intervention might contribute to extend it), neither the government nor the debt caused massive delocalizations, unemployment and foreign outsourcing, neither the government nor the debt caused ethnomasochism and the cult of the foreign.

Ron Paul is just another miracle pills selling hippie, just as Obama, Bush and all the internationalists that value foreign interests above American interests. He simply chose to changed his message to fit the “new-age” public opinion.

What the United States of America need is a serious nationalist candidate, with serious liberal propositions. We don’t have fifty solutions anyway.
A balanced budget is a requirement, but it’s definitively not a solution. Don’t confuse means and ens.

Incompetent ethnomasochist president after incompetent ethnomasochist president, it seems like the White House is desperately trying to ruin our country, the United States of America.
For the past 40 years, we have suffered a socialist and ethnomasochist governmental policy, aiming to help as much as possible our foreign enemies and destroy our sovereignty. And we are only now seeing the tip of the iceberg as to the consequences of such a system.

The American people are desperately looking for the providential man than could make the anti-American system work. But by definition, no anti-American system can work for the Americans.
No Americans won’t find their salute in socialism (Obama), ethnomasochism (Ron Paul) or any other fantasy than isn’t ethnocentric and patriotic !

But since most Americans are apparently so thrilled at the idea of hating themselves and their nation, here are the ten main steps that led to our failure, and will lead to our collapse if we continue down the road of ethnomasochism.
I will obviously forget or omit some, so feel free to comment and add your ideas.

Top 10 ways to ruin our country

1. Accumulate debt
If there is one sure and effective way to ruin a country, it sure is by creating tons of debts in public spending. Much worst when the debt is held by the foreigners, and enemies of the USA. Not only are we financing our enemies with our huge trade deficit, but now we are also finance them directly by borrowing from them.
Even the USSR knew better than to create debt, this proves that our current administration went even further down the road of socialism than the most renown socialists in history.

2. Intentionally misuse the language
If you want to effectively brainwash the Americans into more socialism and more ethnomasochism, you can rely on the heavy propaganda campaigns continously instigated by the anti-American media.
But to REALLY turn them stupid and achieve MASSIVE disinformation, you’ll have to cleverly misuse the language in an obscurantist way.
You can easily notice than in the anti-American media, there are secret stenographic codes of communication used in order to promote ignorance amongst the masses.
Some words are replaced by others, having a completely different meaning, following a very simple pattern :

“liberalism” is the word for socialism

“fascism”, “racism” and “redneck” are the words for ethnocentrism and patriotism

“globalism” is the word for anti-Americanism

“tolerance” is the word for ethnomasochism

…

There are many more examples, but the point is after several generations of anti-American brainwashing our politicians and even our citizens start to believe themselves to the enormous anti-American nonsense they utter.

3. Stigmatize nationalism/patriotism
If you’re trying to screw your country while pretending to help it, there is only so much you can do until the citizens revolt.
But know if you convince the masses that it is done for the “greater good”, the possibilities are limitless.

Only in America are the patriots stigmatized (rednecks, right-wing connotations,etc…), while the globalist hippies are adulated.
There is no such thing as national preference in the USA, moreover, the “anti-racism” activism, which is actually yet another variation of anti-Americanism, has such a stronghold on our media that any patriotism is immediately associated with fascism, racism, monkey-rapping and world war five.

4. Destroy our sovereignty and our culture
Anti-American medias has literally rendered Americans so oblivious to their national identity that given sufficient time, this step would perform itself automatically.

5. Support anti-American lobbies
The examples are numerous, including fake environmental cause, religious fanaticism and international aid.
The latter is particularly stupid, and blatantly unconstitutional. But it shows once again the submission of the Americans to the foreign, aka anti-American, lobbies.

6. Tax local companies to buy foreign
Socialism, but even worst. Even the USSR knew better than to buy foreign products.
The fact that American citizens are stupid enough to buy foreign products is bad enough, but know we have governmental agencies, paid with OUR money, that support the anti-Americans and the foreign.
The best example of this is the decision of California to build their bridges in China. The money the Californian government is giving to the Chinese is not the money they produced, it’s the money of the American people they tax.
California represents anti-American socialism at its best, because not only does it buy bridges from China… but it does it with their citizens tax money !
California has some of the highest tax rates in the country, including income tax. And this is how they use it.
It’s neither socialism because most socialists know better than to buy foreign, and it’s not liberalism because liberals know better than to stupidly tax their citizens, especially to buy foreign. This is basically just anti-American stupidity.
I usually don’t agree with extreme liberal (libertarian) values, such as their 100% anti-government views, but in this case I wouldn’t mind it.

7. Encourage foreign tourism and expatriation
Despite the USA having the most touristic potential, foreign tourism is encouraged like in no other country. Moreover, expatriation is accepted and even encouraged.
Just look at a French or German touristic brochure, and an American brochure. The French and Germans promote local tourism, while Americans mostly don’t even mention it. For the Europeans, tourism is mostly visiting different parts of THEIR country, but for Americans and thanks to the globalist media it always involves going into another country.

8. Worship the foreign
More money was donated from Americans to Japan during Fukushima and to Haiti during the earthquake than to our own country during Katrina. The anti-American media has installed such a cult on the foreign that these redundant events of anti-Americanism are unfortunately very common.
This cult of the foreign goes in pair with ethnomasochism and is obviously incompatible with patriotism and nationalism.

9. Break every thermometer
Examples are numerous : credit rating agencies, trade deficit, stimulus, public debt…
Each and every time there is more evidence that the anti-American ethnomasochist demagogic hippie foreign-loving socialist left-wing extremist system isn’t working, the anti-American ethnomasochist demagogic hippie foreign-loving socialist left-wing extremist media will proceed to hide such information and create fake issues justifying these problems.
When they finally do acknowledge the problems, they will either intentionally muddy the water or simply blame the consequences instead of the causes.

10. Promote collective irresponsibility
It is no secret that our government chose to trade individual responsibility (liberalism) for collective irresponsibility (socialism), and that does limit itself to the economy.
A lot of Americans don’t want to work and don’t want buy American, but refuse to accept the consequences of this lifestyle. So they demand tax money, in the form of redistribution, and more stimulus.

Ron Paul is not a liberal because he is against the first and foremost liberal concept, individual responsibility. He is for individual irresponsibility, which is simply a prolongation of the collective irresponsibility doctrine imposed by the anti-American socialists during the last forty years.
Although it is a certain improvement, I believe we can do better than this.

Although he promotes some liberal concepts, Ron Paul is not a liberal as he is simply recycling the socialist doctrine in order for it to fit in our current economic situation. Exactly the same as Obama with his Obamacare.

He is only giving out another miracle pill to magically “fix everything”. Now that the socialists have run out of options to justify the downfall of our economy, the mindless masses turn to a libertarian solution. But it is exactly the same doctrine.

Now I’m not denying that Ron Paul has some liberal tendencies sometimes, the problem is that most people believe he is popular because of his liberalism.
I would say that he is popular in spite of his liberalism.

Let’s compare two liberal candidates : Ron Paul and Newt Gringrich (although he has a conservative view on some social issues).
One man is a real liberal, he is more ethnocentrist than his opponents and somewhat resembles a little more the liberals in Europe and Asia which are also nationalists. That man is Newt Gringrich.

Newt Gringrich has a decent liberal and patriotic program, and speaks in the interest of the USA.
He is obviously unpopular, because the anti-American media and public opinion wants nothing to do with patriotism and ethnocentrism, they want the magic “miracle” pill, that would allow them to conserve a decent life quality while continuing down the road of trade deficits.

The other man, Ron Paul, is simply trying to surf on the public opinion, which is of course favorable to ethnomasochism and anti-Americanism.
He basically just recycled the socialist-hippie-citizen-of-the-world speech into a freedom-hippie-citizen-of-the-world speech.

Instead of saying that our trade deficit was acceptable because the government can tax the rich and borrow money from other countries in order to maintain a decent life quality for the masses (socialist approach), he is saying our trade deficit is acceptable because (???).
Anyway, regardless of the reasons, this goes against the first and foremost liberal concept : individual responsibility.
Eluding the facts concerning ethnomasochim, anti-Americanism and such fallacies as foreign films for example is also not a liberal solution.

Sure some of his views are liberal, but those aren’t the views that made him popular in the media and public opinion. What made him popular was the ethnomasochism and anti-Americanism.

It’s almost like he copied Newt’s program, but took out what wouldn’t please the masses. The reality in other words.
It’s like trying a new diet but intentionally stripping out what is not appealing.

Like buying a new abs program, not following correct bodybuilding guidelines, and still hoping to get a six pack.

In other words, a magic pill society. Unfortunately, that is not reality. Newt Gringrich is closer to real liberalism than Ron Paul will ever be, simply because he is accepting the real problems, unlike Ron Paul who is constantly in denial of reality.